This is just lovely.
Dubliners taking a stroll through Dublin's Merrion Square yesterday had their eye caught by one of those park bench dedication plaques, for two reasons:
Because it was brand, brand new, and stood out from the rest; and because it contained a very special message for someone called Clare.
If you're not too pleased with the idea that a prospective husband doesn't need to understand women, the context is an Oscar Wilde quotation.
In
, the protagonist meets an old college friend, Lord Murchison, in a very anxious way over his marriage prospects:
That Oscar Wilde - clever chap.